Kevin Shaw

Saturday cooled down again as clouds held fast under light-moderate NE breezes with the stationary front lying just to our south, keeping us in the cooler sector. Occasional waves of light rain (0.29″) fell […]

Friday warmed up to around the 80° mark with dew point temps approaching the 70° mark in the afternoon after a mild overnight that only reachrd a low in the mid 60s. Partly to mostly cloudy skies, with showers a […]

Thursday was partly cloudy with seasonable temperatures but increasing dew points as the day progressed.  Temperatures ranged from the upper 50s in the early AM to the mid 70s in the mid-late afternoon. A nice […]

Once again I have gotten behind and must post a shorter report for the past 4 days. After a rainy, cool Sunday, seasonably cool conditions and partly cloudy skies held forth except for a sunny, warmer […]

Saturday, May 4 was mostly cloudy, muggy but dry most of the day with similar temps to Friday (High temps in the mid 70s and lows in the low 60s.) Showers (0.15″) developed in the latter part of the evening and […]

Well as promised I bring you the report for the first 3 days of May. Temps have been going up and down depending on the position of the warm front swaying to and fro here in the mid-Atlantic states. And with the […]

Well I got behind again big time. I will post a necessarily short report here to cover the rest of April, and then try and resume with a more normal schedule for May. It was a bit of a wetter period than earlier […]

MARCH 2019 MONTHLY SUMMARY

ROCKVILLE 2.8 WNW MARYLAND

by Kevin Shaw, Observer

March 2019 wound up about normal for temperatures (cooler than normal max temps balanced out by warmer than normal min […]

Well I got behind again as I had to finish up my March data summary spreadsheet and analysis the past few days. So I have briefly summarized the past 3 days ahead of a very active, stormy Friday upcoming. No […]

Monday featured early AM clouds, warm temps and frontal showers (0.12″ – from 0100 to 0245 approx). Temps in the low 70s in the first few hours gradually dropped off under increasing NW breezes (post-frontal) to […]

Sunday featured more clouds and damp conditions, with late afternoon/early evening showers (0.08″) that were convective in nature, and in areas just 20 miles to my north, severe, with a radar indicated possible […]

Saturday was mostly cloudy/foggy and somewhat wet (0.11″) early AM, then warmer and drier with partly cloudy skies during the afternoon, then clouding up in the evening once again. High temps reached into the mid […]

Friday was cloudy, milder and wetter with high temps in the upper 60s by mid-day, before early AM lows in the upper 40s. Light rain started to fall in the early afternoon and lasted till mid-evening, becoming […]

Thursday was mostly cloudy and cooler with high temps only in the upper 50s at the very beginning of the day, falling into the mid 40s by mid-morning and remaining around 50° the rest of the day. 

The maximum t […]

Wednesday was partly sunny and cooler with high temps in the upper-mid 60s after a cooler AM with temps around 50°. 

The maximum temperature was 67.5° at 1621.

The minimum temperature was 50.8° at 071 […]

Tuesday was partly sunny and still warm but not quite as warm as Monday with high temps in the upper-mid 70s after very mild early AM temps no lower than 60°.  Conditions started to dry as the day progressed, a […]

Monday was partly to mostly sunny at times and warmer. In fact Monday was the warmest day of the year so far, and the first day with a max temp of 80 or more. High temps reached the low 80s by early afternoon […]

Sunday was partly cloudy and warmer. High temps reached the low 70s by mid afternoon after early morning lows in the milder upper 40s.

The maximum temperature was 71.1° at 1436.

The minimum temperature was […]